Contemporary Examples. 1  But Turkish troops stopped these panic-stricken civilians at the Turkish border. 2  Another sign took a different approach: âI am Turkish I cannot Keep Calm.â. 3  The Kurds accuse the Turkish government of seeing them as a greater danger than Islamic militants.
This type of learning is called respondent conditioning, the learning model in which one stimulus, as the result of being paired with a second stimulus, comes to elicit a response it did not elicit just previously. Usually this new response is similar to the response previously elicited only by the second stimulus.
Numerous theories account for respondent conditioning (see Mikulas, 1974b, p. 98); but the following is satisfactory for our present purposes. Through association of the CS and UCS, the CS comes to provide information about the occurrence of the UCS.